Figures Quote by David E. Cooper

I rather shared Nietzsche's conception of the kind of individual that an ideal education should be cultivating. 'Authenticity' is not Nietzsche's term, but as…

— David E. Cooper

Like Nietzsche's own writings on education, most of mine were relatively youthful ones. Both were inspired by a critical animus against prevailing trends in…

— David E. Cooper

Nietzsche ... does not shy from conscious exaggeration and one-sided formulations of his thought, believing that in this way he can most clearly set…

— Martin Heidegger

“He immersed himself in anthropology, history, philosophy, and linguistics, accumulating hundreds of credit hours without collecting a degree. He saw no reason to. The…

— Anonymous

A person who is truly authentic doesn't need to play a role in life, we think, but can simply be him - or herself.

— Robert Greene

It would be through individual effort, inspired perhaps by reading Nietzsche's books, that the Overman might emerge, not through social or educational engineering.

— David E. Cooper

“Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 – August 25, 1900) was a German philosopher. His writing included critiques of religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The need to live by secure, sharply etched classifications is buried deep in the human mind and one of its earliest demands; simplicity allays…

— Peter Gay

The great philosophers of the past who wrote so beautifully - Rousseau, John Stuart Mill - had to write beautifully because they had to…

— Martha C. Nussbaum

Like many, I suspect, I found the difficulty of analytic philosophy unglamorous and therefore less appealing. This is regrettably superficial but superficiality is characteristic…

— Ray Brassier

“...they had succumbed to an impersonal and anonymous mode of consciousness which precluded personal feeling and which was devoid of a secure sense of…

— Patrick Gardiner

“Neither are the humanistic scholars and artists of any great help these days. They used to be, and were supposed to be, as a…

— Abraham H. Maslow